Coaching

Coaching can improve your wellbeing and effectiveness at work. Some typical areas we cover:

• Communication skills – listening, supporting, giving feedback.
• Mastering anxiety - giving presentations, travel.
• Conflict resolution – different styles, dealing with difficult people.
• Stress management – personalised plans.
• Developing resilience – personalised plans based on the group workshop.
• Developing assertiveness – whether from a starting place of compliance, avoidance or aggression.
• Overcoming writing/creativity blocks.
• Planning for life changes – parenthood, job shift, retirement.

Many of these topics overlap with issues that might be discussed in counselling. Everyone who works as a coach in our service is also therapeutically trained and therefore has a depth of understanding of the obstacles people often face. The emphasis is on setting achievable goals, helping you to focus, providing impartial advice and support and challenging self-limiting beliefs or self-sabotage.

Coaching is also available for major life changes

Maternity/paternity

Maternity/paternity coaching is designed to support you. Having children may change your perceptions about yourself and your expectations in relation to the University as your employer.

The agenda is very much set by you, although these optional 1:1 coaching sessions may give you the opportunity to explore issues such as:

• Work/life balance
• Identifying what has become important to you since your life has changes
• Refocusing professional and personal goals

For women, these sessions can also focus on the challenges of letting go before you go on maternity leave and offer confidence building when you return.

For men, these sessions can provide you with advice and support on how to deal with the pressures of succeeding in the world of employment while trying to spend more time at home in order to support your partner and engage with your baby.

How is it delivered

For women, three sessions will be offered - before, during and after maternity leave - in an effort to support you in the time leading up to your maternity leave, facilitate your return to work and to help you adjust to rejoining the workplace.

You could use the session during your maternity leave as one, or part of one, of your Keeping in Touch Days (by combining it with a visit to your department, for example), which means you can be paid for your time.

Retirement

We can help you plan for your future

Redundancy

We can help you plan for your future